Tag: alta bicycle share
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I test ride a Pronto bike (and yes, it can climb hills)
Pronto Cycle Share has a couple prototypes of the 500 public bikes they will put into service around the city center and the U District in September, and I had the chance recently to test one out. The bike is the product of a new supply chain for Alta Bicycle Share, who used to get…
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Seattle-based system will pioneer new bike share partnership + Hiring manager
It’s almost official, bike share is coming to Seattle. Puget Sound Bike Share announced Thursday that they have entered into a deal that would utilize a redesigned partnership between Alta Bicycle Share and 8D Technologies to launch a Seattle-based system in 2014. After the not-entirely-surprising bankruptcy of former Alta supplier PBSC (AKA Bixi) earlier this…
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Puget Sound Bike Share ‘optimistic’ about sponsorships, supplier troubles
Bike share boosters across the nation are biting their nails this week as Nice Ride, the Minneapolis public bikes organization, is pursuing legal action against Montreal-based PBSC. The problem is complicated, but the short version is that PBSC supplies the hardware and (in some places) software used by most major public bike systems in the…
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OMG! Somebody pedaled a Capital Bikeshare all the way to Seattle?!?! (not really)
I received so many messages yesterday from people who saw this Washington DC Capital Bikeshare bike locked up in Seattle. It even led to a completely baffled post on DCist. Did someone really ride a bike share bike 3,000 miles to Seattle? Just imagine the overage charges they’ve racked up! Unfortunately, no, this bike was…
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Alta selected to build and operate Seattle bike share system
Portland-based Alta Bicycle Share will build and operate Puget Sound Bike Share‘s planned system, the organization announced Tuesday. Alta has also recently won contracts in Portland, Vancouver BC and San Francisco, and the company last week launched what will be its biggest bike share system: Citibike in New York City. They are also behind the…
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